Uncharted

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have surveyed the Earth, orbit after orbit. Uncharted, commissioned by the After Belonging Agency for DOGA, the Norwegian Center for Design and Architecture, made that record physical.

The installation is an array of 45 globes in constant rotation. Each one completes a turn per Landsat orbit, with speeds mapped from survey data from 1972 to 2016. I built the control system that drives all 45 actuators independently while keeping them in sync, calibrated so the globes wouldn't drift out of phase over a run from September to November.

It won a Silver Medal at the European Design Awards. More at uncharted.ooo.